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Uría Menéndez advises Software AG on the sale of its enterprise technology platform business

July 3, 2024

Uría Menéndez has advised Software AG on the sale of several technology platforms to IBM. This was a complex carve-out that needed to be implemented simultaneously at closing, and involved over 50 jurisdictions. The Spanish subsidiary of Software AG played a key role in some of those jurisdictions, as parent company of the businesses in several Latin American countries as well as in the Iberian Peninsula.

Pedro Ravina Martín (partner, M&A-Private Equity), Lorenzo de Benito Lobo (senior associate, M&A-Private Equity) and Javier Churtichaga Doménech (trainee lawyer, M&A-Private Equity) advised on Spanish law, while Catarina Tavares Loureiro (partner, M&A-Private Equity), Marta Sampaio Pinto (senior associate, M&A-Private Equity) and Inês Freitas de Almeida (associate, M&A-Private Equity) advised on Portuguese law. Daniel Cerrutti Buendía (partner, Employment), Paula Alonso Barrera (senior associate, Employment) and Belén Velasco Pardo (senior associate, Employment) advised on the employment-law aspects.